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100% is. :)

As a user of hyphens, I have to change up how I talk in case it looks like AI (AI text also use the longer hypen, but some humans do too, as I found out talking to a friendly human on Lemmy a few months ago.

You’d be amazed at what you can make! :) I am not formally trained, and picked up a tonne from doing (and youtube) - smarts be darned, I have fun! :) If there’s a game you’d like to make or look into how it’s put together, I find it to be a fun hobby definitely.

it’s a very cheap hobby, as the big three (Godot, Unity, and Unreal) all are free to use (the latter two have commercial costs, but godot is open-source), so I love it for that too! :) There’s no equipment needed either, I even have godot installed on my phone because I can! :)

I’m a unity dev, so that’s my wheelhouse. Unity offer handy lessons to help you pick up how things work, but both godot and unity are okay once you overcome “whoah lots of things! send help!”. I’ve not used unreal, but I gather the building-block scripting “blueprints” is easy enough. :)

Whatever you choose to get up to, hope you have fun!

I am now imagining a happy future where all indie games star Harrison Ford searching for lost treasure in some way…

“play your card… to put this in a museum…craft the arc of the covenant… randomised tombs…”

wait a sec this could be great I’d better write this down and never make it like all the other game ideas! :)

Hmm…this has me thinking, maybe I’ll change up my Hugo site a little, so that there’s no dropdown menu - it’s the only thing javascript is needed for.

Thank you for this, some points that I’d not even considered, and a helpful reminder to myself to try and get that javascript from 99% to 100% unused. :)

I want to be a great parent, and be able to make games and/or music for a living - dream I shall!

Short of that, I want to have a pet penguin and live in a quirky house by the sea like a character in some kids book, that sounds excellent.

Same on all counts, best of luck. ♥️

Ubuntu all the way! :) Before I learned there were other ones, then wound up back on Mint again after a trip around the houses. :)

That’s interesting to know! Open source is the way to go where we can.

I do like using (proprietary sadly edit: see below) AutoHotkey on the Windows machine at work, aaaand thanks to learning about Hammerspoon I’ve been bitten with the itch to do this on Linux at home! :)

Edit… waaaait AHK is open-source?! Nice :) I’ll do some digging after work! :)

As much as I’m a proud Linux user and Microsoft aren’t at all in line with my values, I upvoted as this is massively relevant to the world of retro computing, and I found it interesting. :)

Guessing a lot of folks will have reflexively downvoted based on the red rag that is the word Microsoft, but nice to read historical stuff like this, thank you for sharing it! :)

I do, this is it! Recently remade in Hugo :)

It’s mostly things I’ve made or been interested in (music, game projects, musical web nonsense), but mostly just… I’ve always had this site, and am attached to it in a way?

It used to be the name of a comic I made for fun, and the gets used for everything to remind me to keep that feeling of fun and making stuff for enjoyment. :)

Must admit, I’m frequently torn between the private nature of why I binned facebook vs writing there, but meh, I’m happy and that’ll do.

From a read of their wikipedia, it looks like they’ve been consistently on Unreal :) I can imagine they’d have some people who know that program back to front if they still work there! :)

I tried to install unreal, and it was deeply not fun (linux, epic launcher, disk space, other pains), so I’ve never used it. :)

Avowed is still going strong! Loving it! :)

I “broke” linux mint just by trying to pop KDE on, had to timeshift because it messed up my keyboard layout and a whole bunch of other things with my display.

I don’t know how people do these crazy changes without pain, and have a feeling the answer is simply “there’s pain” 😂

I did too! It was fresh and fun :)

You may be interested in one of the designers talking about their “why” for the choice :) it added some context to it, and also made me not expect to see romanceable companions in every game.

https://youtu.be/-qX1pJLDMEI - I’m struggling to get youtube revanced to timestamp, but the relevant talking is 8:21 :)

Thank you so much for this! I never ever see anyone share open-source setups like this for non-hobby work, and it’s inspiring. :)

(Ramble incoming)

I noticed since jumping from windows I’m missing Ableton, and it’s been a mental block of knowing that I’ll need to choose a new way to do things. It’s daft as I loved ardour and LMMS back in 2014, and I’m sure they’re even better now :) I totally need to dedicate some time to music, it’s been a neglected piece of my soul for a bit too long. :)

Edit: also, Plug Data looks brilliant! I loved MaxMSP, and it got me into game making/coding. :)

For me, the last “ah yes, the future” moment was going from “broadband” to seeing real fiber at a friend’s house that was 100x faster. Insanity at the time :)

You can’t just make me vanish into a dark room and listen to an album…

… yet here I am, and I thank you. :)

Definitely! It’s a solid game, and each game is pretty self-contained, especially new vegas as the setting and writing is very “self-contained”. There’s nods and things, but I never felt like I missed something. :)

Also it’s just a lot of fun, especially if you like choices and RPG things like perks :)

I can recommend the burger recipe that uses cream crackers! :) Nothing more insightful to contribute besides that though as I’ve not tried other recipes

(usually the BBC have a version with “less fancy ingredients”, by which I mean “doesn’t assume I have my life together and can afford to have fresh vegetables on hand in my fridge” - this is probably a me problem lol)

Thank you for this! I’m a Unity developer by trade but RPG maker always looked neat :)